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Waxworks

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3.8/5

( 23 Reviews )

3.8

23 Reviews

English & 3 more
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Waxworks
Description
The terror began when you were eight and your twin brother Alex vanished into the black maze of mine tunnels beneath Vista forge - the home of your Uncle Boris' demon-filled Waxworks. Twenty years later... Uncle Boris dies, leaving you his collection of fiendish displays - and the stupefying news t...
Genre:
Adventure - FPP - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Classic, First-Person, Dark, Horror, show 1 more... Only On GOG
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3.8/5

( 23 Reviews )

3.8

23 Reviews

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Product details
1992, Horrorsoft, ...
System requirements
Windows XP or Vista, 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with...
Time to beat
7 hMain
17 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
8 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
The terror began when you were eight and your twin brother Alex vanished into the black maze of mine tunnels beneath Vista forge - the home of your Uncle Boris' demon-filled Waxworks.

Twenty years later... Uncle Boris dies, leaving you his collection of fiendish displays - and the stupefying news that Alex is alive. Possessed by a 500 year old family curse, your brother schemes to resurrect the undead denizens of...

Five blood-soaked worlds of the past, present and future. 19th Century London, ancient Egypt, an abandoned mine shaft, a haunted cemetery and the malevolent chambers of the Waxworks itself.

Your only hope to save Alex lies in removing the curse of the witch Ixona. And a courage you're not sure you possess.
  • A dungeon crawler known for its gore and death scenes
  • Travel through time and save your family from a horrible curse
  • Great puzzles and well-designed monsters
Goodies
manual (13 pages)
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
7 hMain
17 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
8 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - FPP - Horror
Tags:
Adventure, Classic, First-Person, Dark, Horror, show 1 more... Only On GOG
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Release date:
{{'1992-01-02T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Horrorsoft / Adventure Soft
Size:
19 MB
Links:
Forum discussion
Game features
Cloud saves
Single-player
Languages
English
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Deutsch
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español
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français
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User reviews

Posted on: August 26, 2024

guruviz

Verified owner

Games: 73 Reviews: 1

Amazing Game

This game will put to test all your logic skills. There is a lot of trial and error involved, but that is what this game is about: based on a first intuition refine your strategy to solve the puzzles. Loved making my maps, finding all the items and the paths to solve each of the levels. Would have appreciated a the final encounter with the witch to be more challenging and rewarding, but I guess that the amount of good work put into the 4 main waxworks makes this a masterpiece nonetheless. 5 stars and now on to Jaws of Cerberus!

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Posted on: September 18, 2025

Radrattz

Verified owner

Games: 97 Reviews: 1

Good Boomer Game

Great rat in a maze simulator. Loved the part where 2 zombies spawned right infront of me and right behind me and i got my jaw ripped iff.

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Posted on: July 19, 2020

pjdodd

Verified owner

Games: 107 Reviews: 64

Great game, bad version.

Waxworks on the Amiga is the best version of this excellent adventure/puzzle/mystery game. PC version is not good.

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Posted on: October 11, 2020

Ches1977

Verified owner

Games: 15 Reviews: 1

Bug with the game.

I did play this game years ago and I really wanted to play it again: It has a spoiler. - Cemetery: Works fine. - Jack the Ripper - Whitechappel: Here is working fine till you go to the door with the barrel and there is a dog inside the courtyard. Once you solve this puzzle, no matter why, you are always caught by two policemen. I did click the 4 digit pass suggested in the users manual but does not work fine. No idea if other users has this bug, and this is the reason why it has 1 star. - Did not play Egypt and the mine.

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Posted on: November 4, 2013

febs

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Games: 37 Reviews: 1

Not working on Linux

I just wanted to notify potential buyers that it's not working on Linux under Wine as I hoped. It's not declared to work there, hence the five stars. I just wanted to warn the optimists as I was.

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